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Ha, I knew what that comment was before I clicked. (“Is it that rsync/ftp comment? Yup.”) ((EDIT: but it was curlftpfs, not rsync))
You'd love this follow-up Drew Houston and BrandonM thread shortly after Dropbox's IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140
Now show me the thread where Steve Jobs gave a shoutout to CmdrTaco :)
Teams of media advisors and a very favorable alliance with the Murdock press have paled in comparison to this one blog post that didn't even have that as an aim.
While I have no idea how the SSN of a long-dead rock star could ever be useful, I'm certain I still have a copy saved around here somewhere...
In some countries, identity documents are in relatively frequent use. The number of authorised strangers who would have access to one's identity document might be significantly higher in these jurisdictions than, say, the number who would be able to view Tony Abbott's passport number. I'm thinking of - for instance - the 'personnummer' in Sweden (I've heard friends recite theirs in public when asked for them). Q: Sho…
In theory no, but in practice yes. It's the same for a lot of metadata about our lives that routinely doubles up as authentication factor, e.g. "to verify your identity, can you please confirm the first line of your address and your postcode?"... Most of my neighbours know that!
Ireland got a postcode system in 2015 (the last time they considered implementing postcodes to improve autosorting, they were so late to the party that "an post" (Irish postal service) had OCR machines good enough to just read the whole address) which assigns each residence in the country a 7-digit alphanumerical code. Called an "Eircode" [1] It is purported to be a solution to packages getting lost or delayed, and an unambiguous way of giving someone a building's address.
An Eircode can be resolved into a full postal address, and GPS co-ordinates for the address.
e.g, here's some Eircodes;
Facebook's headquarters: D02 Y098
President's house: D08 E1W3
Data protection commission: D02 RD28
To get the info for any of these, check out: https://finder.eircode.ie/
Personal note: I'm not too jazzed on the specifics of the implementation, but it sure is handy when you're shitfaced and can trivially explain exactly where you live to a food-delivery driver over the phone.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republ...
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Sure, this is the guy who knighted a prince and ate a raw onion. What did you expect? Abbott was Australia's Trump. Thankfully he lasted in office an even shorter time than the people he replaced.
Abbott's worst two decisions while PM were, IMHO: Killing our nascent Fibre-to-the-Home rollout which had just begun after years of planning by the previous government. We now use problematic mish mash of slow copper instead of fibre (Murdoch wanted this so Tony gave it up for him). Killing the mining tax for his donors. This would would have returned billions for our country. We could have begun a sovereign wealth f…
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Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.
That statement really intrigued me. Since I like goats, I had to know how to do this. Use ImageInstanceQ[image, object], where image is the image and object is "caprine animal". [0] [1] [0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageInstanceQ.ht... [1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient. A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery…
It shouldn’t work like that.